Date Published: December 23, 2025
God’s covenant promises through Scripture and history, showing how the
“eternal flame” of God’s purpose has been guarded, opposed, and carried
forward to our own generation. It is written for thoughtful lay believers and
seekers, pastors, and small group leaders who feel the weight of current
events and want to test every headline against the unshakeable promises of God
rather than speculation or fear.
Drawing on careful biblical exegesis, historical research, and engagement with
contemporary scholarship, it seeks to equip readers to recognize the patterns
of God’s dealings with His people, discern the times without sensationalism,
and anchor their hope where Scripture does: in the faithfulness of the One who
calls Himself “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
By the end, readers will better understand where we are in the story of
redemption—and what it means to live as children of the promise in an
age of upheaval.
environmental consultant. She lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains, surrounded
by animals and books, writing in the quiet of a high country retreat.
A seventh generation Californian, she descends from a family with more than
420 years on American soil, beginning with early arrivals to Massachusetts in
the early 1600s. From the Mayflower through the Revolutionary, Civil, and
World Wars, her ancestors fought for freedom, trekking across the continent
over generations of Manifest Destiny to the final frontier—California in
the 1800s.
Her great grandfathers helped shape the Los Angeles basin in the early 1900s
as it grew from a town of a few thousand into a major metropolis. One founded
an early auto parts enterprise that later folded into what became the NAPA
Auto Parts distribution system, and was a 33rd degree Freemason and 32nd
degree Scottish Rite Mason; the other built many of the public schools of Long
Beach—campuses she would encounter again a century later when her own
career in school business leadership ended amid the battle over their
reconstruction.
That civic legacy extended through her grandfathers and close kin. One
grandfather served in the U.S. Navy and spent three decades as an engineer in
Lockheed’s Skunk Works, contributing to the secretive aerospace projects
that defined the Cold War era. Another served in the Navy in the Second World
War and later became a Superior Court judge for Island and San Juan Counties
in Washington State. A maternal uncle spent ten years in the U.S. Coast Guard
before rising to vice president of foreign research and development for
Occidental Petroleum, and a maternal aunt served for twenty seven years as
director of research within the orbit of the United Nations and the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
Her father developed historic ranches in California and Nevada and worked in
Republican politics alongside Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Richard
Nixon, later authoring two books about his time with Reagan. Until his death
in 2024, he remained active in local affairs, modeling a life of engagement at
the intersection of land, liberty, and public service.
It is against this backdrop of faith, sacrifice, and civic engagement that she
writes today. Politics, corporate development, international organizations,
Freemasonry, law, the military and its industrial complex, history, land use
development, and construction all appear in her extended family story,
providing a living case study of the very systems traced in this book. These
ancestral strands—crossing boardrooms, bases, courtrooms, campuses, and
covenants—form the soil from which her understanding of global forces
has grown, and the lens through which she explores genealogy, power, and
promise in The Eternal Flame and the Children of the Promise.
